Aurora is the world’s second-largest marijuana company, while CanniMed is a mid-sized producer.

It would create a company worth $3 billion. That would make Aurora the largest cannabis company on the planet.

• CanniMed’s stock soared 29% on the news…

But the deal hasn’t even closed yet. And it may never.

That’s because this was an unsolicited offer. CanniMed doesn’t want to be acquired.

So, it’s now doing everything it can to prevent this deal from happening.

It took a “poison pill”—a tactic companies use to make them unattractive to the bidder. It asked regulators to intervene. And yesterday, the takeover battle went before the Saskatchewan and Ontario securities commissions.

Soon, all this drama will come to an end. But I didn’t write this essay to speculate on whether this deal will close or not.

I wrote it because these recent blockbuster deals tell us that a cannabis takeover mania is underway.

That’s not something speculators can ignore. After all, getting in front of a big merger is one of the only ways investors can make 20%…30%…or 40% on a stock in a single day.

So today, I’ll show you how to make the most of this mania.

But let me first tell you why all these deals are happening in the first place.

• Marijuana is one of the fastest-growing industries on the planet…

Last year, the North American market grew 30%.

According to The Arcview Group, that’s faster than the cable television industry grew (19%) in the 1990s. It’s also faster than the broadband internet industry grew (29%) in the 2000s.

Arcview is one of the world’s leading marijuana research companies. It knows the market better than just about anyone on the planet.

Earlier this year, Arcview projected that the market would grow another 25% this year.

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Chart of the Day: Commodities Are Cheap and Ready to Rip Higher

Doug called the bottom in South African gold stocks back in the ‘70s and uranium’s bottom in the ‘90s. He advised readers to get into silver before it spiked 800% in the early 2000s.

So, when Doug says a new commodities boom is coming, we listen.

As you can see in today’s chart, commodities have been beaten down since 2011. As a group, they’re now trading at their lowest levels since 1995.

The Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Index tracks 19 different commodities across five different exchanges—from agriculture, to industrial metals, to precious metals, to energy. This makes it the broadest gauge of the overall commodities market.

This chart of the CRB Index demonstrates the extreme nature of commodity cycles. Notice how commodities tend to fall for years… then explode higher… only to fall again.

And as you can see, the CRB bottomed at its lowest level in 2016… but it hasn’t exploded higher yet.

What’s more, commodities are ridiculously cheap compared to everything else in the world.

The last time commodities were this cheap was in 2001… and the CRB exploded 157% higher over the next seven years.

Keep an eye on these pages throughout 2018 as we follow the next upswing in the commodities supercycle…

—Joe Withrow

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